Hello, we have some new members; please introduce yourselves everyone. I'm Sandra Bennett, Thistle Cove Farm, Tazewell County, VA and raise/breed American...
Soaring Eagle Farm is located in Surry County, located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. This multi-generation family owned and...
Sally Hurst, just moved to Red House, VA (just south of Appomatox in south central VA). We raise Nigerian Dwarf dairy goats, Border Leicester sheep, geese,...
Hello all...found this while I was cleaning out some files; the information is dated but the site is still good. I believe one can subscribe to the newsletter....
Yeah. I had sent this article to a couple of lists I belong to, thinking that people would be as outraged as I was about it. Not a peep from anyone about...
Hello members, I am new to your group. My name is Pat Hays. I live on a farm in Gore, VA with my husband and grown son. We have 40 sheep that we breed for ...
Weeellll.....I don't like the law but don't know what I can do about it. Monsanto, ADM and others have tried going down this road for years...sometimes more...
Welcome, Patricia and everyone new! This is a great group and I look
forward to working with you all. I am Leslie Shelor from Meadows of Dan, at the edge of...
As you might know, Monsanto had a patent on a type of corn seed. When neighboring farmers' fields were cross-pollinated with the hybrid gene through wind...
Bad news on the home front. Hurt my back on Monday morning, leaning over counter slightly endorsing checks. Went to chiro and dr yesterday due to unrelenting...
After a lengthy telecon with Kathryn Russell, Majesty Farm, VA this morning about HB 2903, we decided HB 2903 needs some changes. Some changes have been made...
An Action Alert from the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, please pass it along. A real estate development firm based in Atlanta, GA, Land Resource ...
Can you please explain why, with the language that is already in the bill(s), persons producing non-food items would be in danger of selling them illegally?...
Good Morning Sally - I raise and breed sheep for their wool. If this bill is passed as written (without our changes) it will be illegal for me, or any other...
OK guys, we have new news here. I am going to do my damnest to get to Richmond on Monday for the committee hearing, as well as talk to Pollard about several...
<<<...I was told that the "non food" products are not considered consumables, therefore it is not necessary to be included in the bill language.>>> Well,...
Sorry I haven't had a chance to write but I have been crazy here between the farm, writing articles for "Farm Chronicle"and "Growers" and the county extension...
To all: As I read it, and as many other farmers have read it, the way the bill reads, *even with revisions*, will still put farmers out of business. It's the...
I agree that I don't like the restrictions of not being able to sell across State lines. I think that really ham strings anyone who is close to a border and...
Where is Sustainable Agriculture in all this? Are they getting involved? It may be that agribusiness and even grocery store owners see that small farmers...
At about mid-night Sunday morning (this morning) Rachel woke Keith and I from a sound sleep - Screaming "Help, Help Come Quick, Oh God!!!!!!!!" I jumped from...
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